I recently stumbled on an old interview with Doug Henwood (my first) that I conducted when I was in college.

Spring Breakers is more faithful to the themes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby than Baz Luhrmann’s new film adaption.

Richard Epstein, the libertarian legal scholar, has helpfully chimed into the discussion about the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 1100 people so far by zeroing in on who’s really to blame: the workers.

Mocking hipsters in the service of capital.

“Nathan Leopold is not the only boy who has read Nietzsche.”

The Taliban want to end democracy in Pakistan. The state won’t be able to stop them.

On the Italian Communist Party and the path not taken between the horrors of state socialism and the bankruptcy of modern social democracy.

In Behind the Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman finally reveals what many of the 10 million people who work in the rapidly growing U.S. restaurant industry face daily while cooking and serving food.